World through the aperture

A paraglider who started from Wallberg flies over snow covered tops of trees near Tegernsee, Germany, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

A Kashmiri fruit vendor waits for customers during a snowfall on the outskirts of Srinagar on January 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP)A member of the US border patrol is seen next to the border wall in San Diego County, US, photographed through the wall in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)A Syrian boy, stands in a water logged field outside a tent in the Cordoba camp for internally displaced Persons (IDP), close to Batabu town, along the highway leading to the Syrian Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in the northern Syrian Idlib province on January 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Workers tie a rope to a pile of freshly cut wood loaded on a truck in Peshawar, Pakistan, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Seagulls fly off the coast of the Lebanese capital Beirut, Lebanon, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP)A large, circular ice floe spins slowly in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, US, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force (STF) soldiers stand during a passing out parade at Katukurunda, some 40 kms south of Colombo, on January 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP) A picture taken on January 16, 2019 shows a snow-covered landscape in Brotterode, Germany. (By AFP)